Samsung F1 Series

[madman045]

Scan, any indication as to when you will be getting the new Samsung F1 edition Sata drives in, especially the 320GB model?

Thanks

Andy

[Chris P]

Thank you for your enquiry

We have checked with our supplier and have confirmed this product has not been added to our new products list as yet by the supplier.

Our suppliers have direct access to our system enabling them to add new products directly onto this list so I will watch out for these for you and as soon as we have more information of specification and price the web site will be updated

Please contact us if you have any further queries

Best Regards

[GoNz0]

i cant find a great deal on google, got any more info on these madman ?

[LivesInABox]

I've just ordered another 4 of these from a uk company (the last 8 i got came from a german company - but +20 quid each), the last time i did that from a uk company i got the HD321KJ's and i returned them for a refund. Some of the companies of trying to cash in and hope you don't notice, a few of them even say "model number may vary" and one of them has called it a HD322HJ Spinpoint T - which is wrong and i expect it's the T model, not the F1. I'll let you know if they are actually F1's (i did email first and verify).

I think samsung may have a problem with it's odd sized platters - they definitely made some, but i think they have changed the design or something due to reliability problems, so if you do get some avoid raid 0 (which has no gains unless your reading/writing huge files constantly) and make sure you check the smart data and do backups of important stuff. There covered by warranty and i only store important data on one of the drives anywho

[Anastie]

The F1 is certainly on my upgrade list

[LivesInABox]

I got my 4 from overclock.co.uk £205 for 4 inc shipping & vat, and they were indeed the F1 series. However, the page that had them has now been removed, and the item is not even listed anymore so i imagine they have 0 stock. This again goes to my theory that production was stopped with reliability problems for the odd sized platters. I imagine their will be a delay before they start shipping again in large numbers!

[grimpy]

The place i got mine from still has 9 in stock.

[reldavidson]

are scan going to get these in anytime soon? have also had a look at the new western digital 320gb platter drives and they seem ok as well.

[JKL]

I'm waiting on the SAMSUNG F1 320GB single platter (HD322HJ ) ... none anywhere, someone said they may have been pulled by Samsung, they were listed on a few sites then they vanished.

[Dr Cool]

I realy doubt that they pulled the 320gb model, i heard it was a great success :O

[JKL]

tired of waiting .... bought the 320GB Spinpoint-T166 instead.

[roadie]

I too was after the 320Gb version, although this seems to have completely disappeared from the Internet. I think I'll have to go for either the WD single platter 320gb drive or the Seagate, although I don't think Scan stock either of these.

Scan, might you be able to stock other single platter 320Gb drives?

Seagate ST3320620AS
Western Digital WD3200AAKS-00B3A0